Urban survival

This article is made for people who want/or have to survival in urban enviroment without money. Article is collecting tips and hints how to get the main thing to keep alive in the streets of the cities.

Living
If you got tent, it's good place to stay in diffrent atmospheres. Also sleeping bag is good.
 * tent

If you don't have a tent, you can instead spend a night in a trashboxes wich are for paper and cartong. Squattet or empty houses are also good place to stay. The most important thing is that you get your body dry and body temperature in normal.
 * other places

Also you can ask people that do they have sleeping place for a backbacker, and search sleeping places from couchsurfing sites.

Food
You can find usable food from the trashbins of the stores after the stores get closed. There might be lock in the trashcan, but get something to break the lock if nessesary. MacDonalds, Hesburgers etc. are good dumbster diving places.

Also you can go to some restaurant and search empty tables where is still some food left and get a good meal for you. :)

Equipment
Ducktape is almost the most important thing in urbal surviving. You can make almost everything with it, and if you get to a violent situation you can always tape the violent person with this tape. Then write the police station address to the packet. :D

Leatherman or some kind of knife is also usefull to chop firefood, open tin cans, and do other things that comes to your mind.

Money collecting
In many countries, you can collect money by searching empty bottles and bringing them back to store. (In Finland the pant of the bottles is around 10-40snt per bottle.) Also you can do performances in the street and get some money for people if they have fun with you.

Social networking
Social networking is good way to survive in any city, because locals always know the good places. Meeting the local hippies is the best way to get good dumbster diving places and sleeping places. Hippies are usually friendly people to meet.

Remember
Always when you don't know what to do, you can ask in your head that "what MacGyver would do in this situation and you might get good ideas with ducktape" etc. :)